"Jumbo (Android, iOS) isn't a social media app replacement as such, but it can help you lock down the social networks that you're already signed up for (and where your friends will already be). At the moment it comprehensively covers Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and though some of its features require a subscription, you do … Continue reading Jumbo
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Social Media Anonymous
Social Chronophage
"The social industry doesn’t just eat our time with endless stimulus and algorithmic scrolling; it eats our time by creating and promoting people who exist only to be explained to, people to whom the world has been created anew every morning, people for whom every settled sociological, scientific, and political argument of modernity must be … Continue reading Social Chronophage
StoryWrangling.org
"StoryWrangler instrument reflects our first step towards wrestling the day’s events into coherence. It is an approximate daily leaderboard for language popularity around the globe......Half of a billion messages are posted to Twitter every day! Written on post-it notes, they would wrap around the Earth’s equator in a neon hug full of politics, pop music, … Continue reading StoryWrangling.org
Lady Drawer
I Don’t Know Much, But I Know That
What’s Wrong With Twitter: #TooFarLeft
"The hashtag 'TooFarLeft' trended on Twitter on Saturday morning, in part because of comments made Friday by former President Obama...Obama spoke at a fundraising meeting Friday evening and warned donors of the danger of the 2020 Democratic primary field moving too far to the left."-Marty Johnson, "'Too Far Left' hashtag trends on Twitter." TheHill.com. November 16, 2019. I … Continue reading What’s Wrong With Twitter: #TooFarLeft
Disabling Facebook and Other Social Media Tracking in WordPress
I realized yesterday that the default sharing options in WordPress enabled tracking by Facebook and Twitter. I don't want advertising or tracking on my site. I found that you can turn these "features" off in the Dashboard. Simply click on Enabled Services and drag and drop into Available Services, and vice versa, for services you … Continue reading Disabling Facebook and Other Social Media Tracking in WordPress
An Introduction to Eva Victor
A greatest hits of Eva Victor on Twitter. If you use Twitter, she seems like someone fun to follow. —Mallory Rice, "Eva Victor Is Making Me Love Twitter Again." Man Repeller. July 17, 2019.
Quit Social Media | Cal Newport
Gobo
"Sign up for Gobo, link it to your other social media profiles, and you can take control of your feed. Want to read news you aren't otherwise seeing? Use our "Echo Chamber" filter to see what we call "wider" news. Want a better balance of men and women in your feed? Use our "gender" filter … Continue reading Gobo
The Irony of Intelligence
"This is the irony of intelligence: the people with the time and effort to evade it are almost by definition uninteresting to the people they are attempting to evade." — Pwn ██ ██ ███; Error 404(b)(1): 702 auth not found (@pwnallthethings). Twitter. December 30, 2017.
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